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AlterEgo's animated faces look almost real
Take a trip with us down into uncanny valley, where animated human faces look almost real. Studio Pendulum's AlterEgo division pasted tiny sensors on actors’ faces and ran that data through their latest facial performance software, and this is the result. They’ve certainly come a long way since Disney-owned ImageMovers created Polar Express.
This is the closest yet to the real thing, but it’s still not exact enough to get beyond the creepy zone. Our familiarity with the human face is just too precise for animated artistry to be completely convincing thus far. Can’t wait to see what the next generation of animation will bring. Two or three more revs and on-screen human actors will be rendered obsolete.
Alter Ego, via Tech E Blog
By yelsniamcg at 2:12 PM ON 08/11/08
That is genuinely creepy. It's so cool, cuase it's so real, but its so creepy cuz its so real.
By TheAdlerian at 3:05 PM ON 08/11/08
It's not there yet, there's still something dead about them, but I would love to see the day when there's no more celebrities!
If I could donate my own money to animators, I would.
By kchenault at 1:20 PM ON 08/12/08
It's the eyes, they don't move. Get the eyeballs to move, not just the lids around them, and you might have something.
By warstoke at 10:38 PM ON 08/12/08
its only a matter of time japan has had digital celebs eventually voice acting will replace the real thing until we have neural cinema with recordings of real experiences
By the cerne abbas giant at 4:33 AM ON 01/16/09
im a performing artist and i want to use this as part of my act , you intersted in working with me ? i can really push back the boundries of what can be done with this :)
joe
By Peter Morris at 8:43 AM ON 04/30/09
I thought it was the other alteregos, the one for putting talking characters on your website.
That's pretty cool too!
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